Main roles. I think everything fits under three categories for me: (1) personal, (2) family, and (3) professor-shepherd.He convinced me that I should (1) specify my main roles more carefully, (2) use a good task management tool, and (3) use Evernote more robustly. Tim’s book helped me go to the next level. And no, I don’t know anyone else who has done that, and I don’t recall where I got the idea. (I don’t wear ankle weights anymore! Instead, I use a walking desk.) It was a way to always be working out, and it helped me for track and cross country. In high school I would wear 5-pound ankle weights under my jeans. With all the time I spend studying, I have adopted a routine in which I kill two birds with one stone by always wearing ankle weights.” I had forgotten about that. I shared them with Jenni, and at one point she asked me, “What are ankle weights?” She was reading an application I filled out when I was sixteen years old that asked me this question: “Do you play sports or have any form of regular exercise? If so, please describe.” Part of my answer included this line: “I am extremely economical, and I hate to waste time. As I was reorganizing my files last week after reading Tim’s book, I discovered a folder of letters I had written when I was a teenager. They have helped me develop an efficient system for processing emails, setting up my desks, and even organizing my theological library.Īside: Here’s an interesting story (at least to Jenni and me). I’ve already benefitted from books like David Allen’s Getting Things Doneand Matt Perman’s What’s Best Next. Use an information tool to collect, archive, and access information.Tim’s top recommendation is Google Calendar. Use a scheduling tool to organize your time and notify you of pending events and appointments.
Quickcal calendar series#
(He was using OmniFocus when he wrote his series of blog posts.) Use a task management tool to capture and organize your projects and tasks.
What helped me most is how Tim recommends “three essential tools”:
Then I spent most of the next day rewiring my work flow. But the book drew me in, and I ended up reading the whole thing straight through. I had read Tim’s blog series on productivity, so I thought this would merely compile his blog posts. I process a lot of books, and when I started reading Tim’s latest book on Monday night last week, I thought that I would survey it for about ten minutes and then move on to the next book. Tim Challies just wrote a new little book on productivity called Do More Better: A Practical Guide to Productivity (Minneapolis: Cruciform, 2015).
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